Moral policing in Nepal
The youth in Nepal, like their peers in the rest of the world, love to have sex. A 2006 survey covering male college-going students from 67 districts found that more than 40 percent respondents had had sex before the age of 19. In a similar survey of women in 2011, 40 percent responders under 18 and 58 percent women aged 20-24 reported having sexual intercourse. If that is not promiscuous enough for the prudes, more recent data from Nepal Demographic and Living...

KATHMANDU, April 1: Chief of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) Lokman Singh Karki has refuted that he unduly influenced anyone to grant affiliation to medical colleges as alleged by Dr Govinda KC, who is on...

TEHRAN, March 31: Nepal concluded its AFC U-23 Championship Qualifiers campaign without scoring a single goal in four matches as it faced 4-0 defeat at the hands of Palestine in the last match of Group C in Tehran, Iran on...

Pratima Dahal Giri, 31, vividly remembers the day as well as the time. On October 20, 2014 at around four in the afternoon, she received a phone call from an acquaintance in South Korea. Apparently he had just accepted Pratima's...

WASHINGTON, March 31: Rihanna has denied that rumors claiming that she's dating Leonardo DiCaprio, saying that she has no time for romance.While talking to Hello! Magazine, the 27-year-old singer didn't appear impressed when the actor's name was suggested to her,...